This week’s migration news roundup

Migration Weekly

1. New financial year state nomination quotas to be revealed in a few weeks; WA remains steadily favourable

2. NSW RDA stream now only processing regional cases on a priority basis; invitation roundup

3. Victoria issues a small round of invitations; a snapshot of where each state nomination and other stream currently stands

4. Is the Department of Home Affairs flooding parent migration applicants with “spam”?

5. This week’s roundup of grants, invitations, skills assessments and citizenship processing progress

1. New financial year state nomination quotas to be revealed in a few weeks; WA remains steadily favourable

This Monday the WA state government and StudyPerth kicked off a national roadshow, mainly to introduce WA’s study and migration policies. The Newstars team attended the first session, held in Melbourne, and brings back the following key news:

– State nomination quotas will be revealed in the coming weeks, with WA’s new financial year state nomination policy to be announced soon. The quotas for other states’ nominations are expected to be known around the same time.

–WA’s new financial year policy will only involve minor tweaks,and the state government will shortly publish the new financial year’s invitation rules and policy on its official website,possibly adding some occupations in short supply to the priority ranking. However, invitations in the new financial year will continue to be issued at a regular cadence, and it was disclosed that WA’s state nomination policy will remain steadily favourable for the next 2-3 years, especially the policy for locally graduated international students.

– In the second half of this financial year WAhas already been working to speed up the processing of nominations, with greater improvements to come in the new financial year.This week we have also seen Subclass 491 processing pick up pace,with a pre-invitation received in early May and the formal nomination received by the end of May.

WA’s current policy for local international graduates:Most common occupations are on the list. With four 6s in English and a skills assessment, you can apply for Subclass 190 without work experience or a job offer, and there are plenty of opportunities to be invited.By the second half of the financial year, even those who graduated in WA but are no longer in the state can be invited.The points required are also very low – most occupations, including popular ones, can be invited at 65-80 points.

For more details, see:The premier suddenly resigns… but it won’t affect WA’s state nomination staying stable in the new financial year, possibly with priority occupations added! New state nomination quotas will be revealed within weeks!

WA is home to renowned institutions such as the University of Western Australia and Curtin University – get in touch with us to assess and discuss your study or migration options!

2. NSW RDA stream now only processing regional cases on a priority basis; invitation roundup

Last week we explained thatthe NSW Subclass 491 RDA stream now only accepts applications from three regions: Far West, South Coast and Sydney.This week we have seen the RDA prioritise processing,with some clients told that the Hunter region is helping the Sydney region process some applications,to avoid being unable to finish processing applications before the end of the financial year.

The invitation data we have seen this week is as follows,with points still very low and invitations continuing to concentrate on offshore applicants – the majority of whom we are seeing are engineering applicants. Offshore applicants, or offshore applicants on lower points, can try the State government stream, where the points required are just as low.

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3. Victoria issues a small round of invitations; Canberra’s latest round remains very low on points; a snapshot of where each state nomination and other stream currently stands

Victoriaissued three rounds of invitations in May and another round on 1 June. This round was smaller in scale, and the points required were correspondingly higher. The state government is doing its best to use up all of its remaining quota,and the data we have received for this round of Victorian invitations is as follows:

Adding a Contract Administrator on 50+15 points

Canberrareleased the matrix invitation data for the 25 May round this week. Whether offshore or onshore, the matrix invitation scores remain very low,with most offshore Subclass 190 cases needing only a matrix score of around 65, and Subclass 491 needing as little as 50 or even less. Most occupations onshore can also be invited at a matrix score of 70 or lower!

Offshore applicants applying for Subclass 491 need only one year of work experience and four 6s in English; the EOI only needs to reach 50 points on its own, a job offer is not mandatory to lodge, and the matrix scores are very low too. Get in touch with us to assess your matrix score – you might just pick up a lucky opportunity!

While we’re at it, here is a snapshot of where each state nomination stream stands as at 1 June:

4. Is the Department of Home Affairs flooding parent migration applicants with “spam”?

From around this Thursday, the Department of Home Affairs began frantically emailing parent migration applicants. From morning to night, our inbox was flooded.The main content of the emails reminds applicants to promptly notify the Department of Home Affairs if their circumstances change, and attaches two forms:

Form one is the parent visa processing centre form, used to advise of updated circumstances;

Form two simply won’t open…

Some clients asked whether this meant a case officer had looked at their application. In fact, it does not.The email specifically notes that receiving it should not be taken to mean your case is being processed – it has nothing to do with processing progress.Moreover, quite a few of our clients who were already granted PR within the past six months to a year also received this email.

So this is simply an indiscriminate mass mail-out. By now, the parent migration quota is almost used up, so we won’t see as many grants going forward.The good news for the next financial year is that Subclass 143 has been allocated a higher proportion of the quota, with 6,688 places.

Subclass 143 document-request notices have currently reached early May; we hope everyone receives good news in the new financial year.

5. This week’s roundup of grants, invitations, skills assessments and citizenship processing progress

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State nomination invitation / GTI invitation statistics

Canberra state nomination

The following are formal nomination approvals

Lodged 18 May 2023, invited for ACT 190 on 30 May 2023, External Auditor

Lodged 30 May 2023, invited for ACT 190 on 31 May 2023, ICT Business Analyst

Subclass 190 lodged: 21/04/2023 Approved: 02/06/2023, Environmental Engineer, offshore

The following are matrix invitations

Lodged 18 May 2023, invited for ACT 190 on 30 May 2023, External Auditor

Lodged 30 May 2023, invited for ACT 190 on 31 May 2023, ICT Business Analyst

Victoria state nomination

For pre-invitations see the summary above; below are formal nomination approvals

VIC 190 ROI lodged 4 May 2023, VIC 190 pre-invitation received 9 May 2023, VIC 190 application lodged 17 May 2023, 190 invitation received 30 May 2023, Midwife – 254111, 65+5

VIC 190 ROI lodged 3 April 2023, VIC 190 pre-invitation received 24 May 2023, VIC 190 application lodged 24 May 2023, 190 invitation received 31 May 2023, Accountant (General) – 221111, 90+5

Tasmania state nomination

TAS 190 ROI lodged 9 March 2023, TAS 190 pre-invitation received 12 May 2023, TAS 190 application lodged 19 May 2023, 190 invitation received 29 May 2023, Software Engineer – 261313, 70+5

TAS 190 ROI lodged 11 May 2023, TAS 190 pre-invitation received 12 May 2023, TAS 190 application lodged 24 May 2023, 190 invitation received 30 May 2023, Developer Programmer – 261312, 75+5

TAS 491 ROI lodged 31 May 2023, TAS 491 pre-invitation received 31 May 2023, Massage
Therapist – 411611, 50+15

TAS 190 ROI lodged 30 May 2023, TAS 190 pre-invitation received 31 May 2023, Accountant
(General) – 221111, 70+5

TAS 190 ROI lodged 1 June 2023, TAS 190 pre-invitation received 2 June 2023, ICT
Business Analyst – 261111, 60+5

TAS 190 ROI lodged 10 May 2023, TAS 190 pre-invitation received 12 May 2023, TAS 190 application lodged 24 May 2023, 190 invitation received 2 June 2023, Accountant (General) – 221111, 75+5

TAS 190 ROI lodged 15 May 2023, TAS 190 pre-invitation received 19 May 2023, TAS 190 application lodged 25 May 2023, 190 invitation received 2 June 2023, Accountant (General) – 221111, 75+5

NSW state nomination

For NSW 491 invitations see the summary above

South Australia state nomination

Lodged 15 May 2023, invited 30 May 2023, onshore, occupation: Taxation Accountant (Long-Term Residents (long-term residence category))

Queensland state nomination

None this week

WA state nomination

491 pre-invitation received in early May 2023, full documents lodged in mid-May, nomination received on 30 May 2023, 65+15 points Management Accountant

Northern Territory state nomination

None this week

This week’s grant progress and analysis

Subclass 189 Skilled Independent

Lodged February 2023, granted May 2023

Subclass 190 Skilled Nominated (state-nominated)

ACT 190 lodged onshore 31 Mar 2023, granted 31 May 2023

Subclass 491 (new regional) / Subclass 489 (old regional) nominated visa

ACT 491 lodged onshore 10 Mar 2022, granted 31 May 2023

Subclass 887/191 regional permanent residence visa

Lodged May 2023, granted May 2023

Lodged November 2022, granted May 2023

Lodged May 2023, granted May 2023

Lodged December 2022, granted May 2023

Employer sponsorship

Nomination lodged 24 May 2023, approved 29 May 2023, Accountant

Nomination lodged 25 May 2023, approved 1 June 2023, Statistician

Visa lodged 26 May 2023, granted 29 May 2023, Civil Engineering

Visa lodged 26 July 2022, Subclass 186 DE granted 2 June 2023, Accountant

Investor migration / GTI

None this week

Subclass 600 Visitor visa

Subclass 600 lodged offshore 02 May 2023, granted 29 May 2023

Lodged May 2023, granted May 2023

Lodged May 2023, granted June 2023

Visa lodged 7 May, granted 31 May

Lodged 26 April 2023, granted 30 May 2023

Lodged 6 May 2023, granted 2 June 2023

Subclass 500 Student visa

Subclass 500 lodged onshore 26 MAY 2023, granted 31 May 2023

Lodged May 2023, granted May 2023

Lodged 22 May 2023, granted 30 May 2023

Lodged 4 May 2023, granted 30 May 2023

Lodged: 01/04/2023, granted: 01/06/2023

Lodged: 01/04/2023, granted: 01/06/2023, Subclass 590 Guardian

Subclass 485 Graduate Work visa

Lodged April 2023, granted May 2023

Lodged 24 May 2023, granted 26 May 2023, onshore

Lodged 13 March 2022, granted 26 May 2023

Lodged 5 April 2023, granted 01 June 2023

Partner migration

Subclass 801 lodged February 2022, Subclass 801 granted May 2023

Subclass 801 lodged early 2022, granted 31 May 2023

Subclass 801/820 lodged early 2020, Subclass 801 granted 2 June 2023

Parent migration / visa / child visa

None this week

Subclass 408 visa

Subclass 408 lodged onshore 24 May 2023, granted 29 May 2023

Lodged May 2023, granted May 2023

Lodged April 2023, granted May 2023

Subclass 155 visa

Lodged May 2023, granted May 2023

Visa lodged 1 June, granted 2 June

13/03/2023 Granted: 28/05/2023, offshore, family of three

Citizenship application

None this week

This week’s skills assessment processing progress

ACS (IT-related)

Lodged 22 February 2023, approved 30 May 2023, ICT Security Specialist

CA (accounting-related)

Lodged 21 April 2023, approved 30 May 2023, Management Accountant

Lodged 24 April 2023, approved 31 May 2023, Accountant

EA (engineering-related)

Lodged 17 April 2023, completed 31 May 2023 (priority)

Lodged 18 April 2023, completed 1 June 2023 (priority)

VETASSESS

Lodged 23 May 2023, completed 1 June 2023 (priority)

Lodged 21 May 2023, approved 31 May 2023, Financial Investment Advisor

Occupation: Restaurant Manager, lodged: 23/05/2023 approved: 01/06/2023

Occupation: Quality Assurance Manager, lodged: 25/05/2022 approved: 31/05/2023

Occupation: Conference and Event Organiser, lodged: 11/05/2022 approved: 31/05/2023

Occupation: Marketing Specialist, lodged: 23/05/2022 approved: 1/06/2023

ANMAC

Lodged 27 April 2023, passed 26 May 2023, occupation: Registered Nurse (254499)

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